STAFF at Hope Hospital, Salford, are celebrating after hearing their renal unit is one of two chosen to provide services for Greater Manchester. The decision will mean improved care for kidney patients across the region. Dr Donal O'Donoghue, Consultant
ANGRY council chiefs are to protest to the Government about the amount of cash they have been given to improve Bolton roads. They have been allocated just £403,000 to carry out all the borough's schemes. Now they are planning to go to London to ask John
THOUSANDS of football fans are risking their lives by crossing a motorway slip-road after they leave the Reebok Stadium. Police and council highways chiefs are now so concerned that they want traffic lights on the roundabout at the M61junction to stop
THE OWNER of a landfill site in Adlington has caused a storm of protest by trying to keep it open into the next millennium. Houghton House Sand Company wants to extend dumping at the Pincroft Landfill site, Sandy Lane, until April 30, 2000. But town councillors
BOLTON motorists appear to be heeding police warnings by not drinking and driving in the run up to Christmas. But with the seasonal office parties in full swing, police chiefs are repeating warnings that drunken drivers on the town's roads will be caught
BOLTON is joining the famous Blue Badge Guides network to give visitors a better understanding of the places they visit. Great strides have been made in recent years to turn Bolton into a town with lots to offer tourists. Now it is to have its own team
A BOLTON father, who feared he might be sent to prison, tied himself to a tree and set himself on fire with petrol. Care assistant Adrian Booth's screams alerted an off-duty policeman who found the severely burned and naked man in a brook in dense woods
SIR: Why do so many people insist that 1 January, year 2000, is the start of the next millennium when in factyear 2000 will be the final year of this millennium? It's not just ordinary members of the public who insist this, but governments too. To my
THE tragic death of care assistant Adrian Booth has rocked his family, who say he felt so ashamed at losing his temper with a pensioner that he tortured himself. His devastated widow, Shirley, who had known Adrian for 22 years, claims her husband was
SIR: Calling all former military musicians. The Fusiliers Association (Lancashire) are to form a new Military Marching Band, to be based at the Castle Armoury TA Centre in Bury. We are looking for former Military Musicians of either sex, and from any
SIR: With keen intent, three young girl shoppers entered Aldi stores (Thursday pm, December 11). Their 'gaffer' led with list and trolley, her two 'labourers', advancing right and left up the crowded aisles, round the store, sweeping along like predators
SIR: I am trying to trace a former ex-service comrade, but, unfortunately, it is from a very long time ago. ie. 1944, and the only information concerning him is that his name was or is B Crook or Crooke. He was formerly of the 4th Battalion York &
SANDRA Heilberg, Director at the popular Deansgate book shop, says she has been asked by customers if Sweetens is still haunted, and do they hear footsteps climbing the stairs? 'We never took much notice until recently when one of our staff, Carol Vernon
From the Evening News, December 20, 1972 PRESTON manager Alan Ball made it clear today that he wants to take over crisis-club Manchester United. Ball has let United know in radio and television interviews that he wants Frank O'Farrell's job. But as Ball
THERE were a few raised eyebrows and knowing looks when Colin Todd referred to Peter Beardsley as "a valuable member of the football club". It was generally regarded that, since he hadn't budged from the substitutes' bench for five Premiership games and
WANDERERS have a golden opportunity to home in on Premiership safety over the next five weeks. Reebok 'six-pointers' against Barnsley, Southampton and Coventry offer Colin Todd's warriors the chance to take a distinct advantage over their rivals in the
A HEARTBROKEN mum is set for a miserable Christmas after burglars struck for the EIGHTH time. Thieves broke into Deborah Sandford's Westhoughton home, stealing nearly everything she owned, including Christmas presents for her 10-year-old son. The first
BOLTON'S long-awaited new magistrates court has finally been given the go-ahead. Delighted court and council chiefs were today celebrating after receiving the best Christmas present they could wish for. They have been told by the Lord Chancellor's department
SIR: What again? Could you tell me why, most times, when I read the Your Views column, he's there again - the one and only, Mr Brian Derbyshire." Come on, Brian, don't take it the wrong way, but have you nothing better to do with your time, than write
SIR: Fox-hunting has many hidden facets. One is the construction of artificial earths and logpiles as cosy convenient homes for foxes. Another is the feeding of foxes. Fox-hunters encourage foxes by these methods but they are no friends of the species
YOU can tell it's Christmas when Tony Blue performs. His posing pouch has tree ornaments and lights. But, stripping is an all-the-year-round job for the Bolton man who has made a name for himself doing a "Full Monty" - over a decade before the blockbuster
THIEVES conned a shop assistant to steal a collection box in aid of Bolton Hospice. The thugs pretended their car had been broken into and pestered the assistant at Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe on Churchgate to find a piece of tin foil to put over their damaged
A BOLTON man choked to death after eating a spicy takeout, a Bolton coroner heard. Bolton coroner Mr Martin Coppell recorded a verdict of accidental death at an inquest into the death of Paul Beedon, aged 52. Bachelor Mr Beedon was found dead in the kitchen
VISITORS to Manchester's Granada Studios will be helping needy children and the homeless on Boxing Day - for half the normal admission price. Europe's only television and film theme park is offering half price entry fee to all those with a copy of the
THE last word (possibly!) on Gandhi and Bolton. 'Yes', writes Miss Ada Ashworth, 'he did come. I was working at Persian Mill in Bayley Street. The boss came round and told everyone not mending machines to go onto Chorley Old Road and line the pavement
